Language and culture are obviously heavily related to each other, and impact each other greatly, but I wonder what role climate plays in the development of verb tenses in language.
The title of this article is NOT my view, nor is it clickbait. It’s the punchline to an anecdote I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
Lian Hern writes a good tale here, but not a great one. She sets it in a fictional medieval Japan,
So the buzz this morning is that a number of people are leaving theatres after seeing The Martian, believing that
I’ve had one of those realizations, one of those realizations(updated below). I’ve parted ways with pop culture in all its
SPOILER & SPECULATION Heavy – Read at your own risk. As most people know by now, the third act of
Since the most common-sense idea — “no guns” — won’t work in America, here?s a simple idea, and not even
Recently France?s privacy commission ruled that the European Union?s ?Right to Be Forgotten? law applies to Google worldwide, not just
Who owns the meaning of a story? There?s an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut that may be apocryphal. It goes like
Science Fiction set in non-Western cultures can be very interesting, and lately I?ve been lucky to find two that are
